Responsibilities

• Advocate for modern software development practices such as CI/CD, unit testing, etc.
• Troubleshoot issues in distributed systems infrastructure or in application code.
• Maintain knowledge of current market trends around scalable infrastructure and how it can be applied.
• Manage monitoring and logging systems to proactively prevent downtime.
• Build deployment pipelines to facilitate faster delivery of software while minimizing impact to customers.
• Apply distributed systems principles to solve large scale, real world problems.
• Contribute to the development of other team members through coaching and mentoring.
• Work closely with members of the development team to investigate issues and collaborate on architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years experience with AWS or other cloud providers.
• 3 years experience with a scripting language such as Bash or Python and configuration management tools such as Ansible. 
• 3 years with continuous integration tools, such as TeamCity or Jenkins. 
• Strong Linux administration experience with exposure to Windows.
• Experience with operations in 24x7 production environment.
• Strong experience with deploying SQL and other database systems.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Data Dog and Sumo Logic.
• Knowledge of agile development and continuous delivery principles. 

Nice to haves

• Experience with big data frameworks such as Cassandra, Hadoop, or Spark.
• Exposure to Apache Mesos, Docker, and Kubernetes.

About you

• Driven, self-starter with the ability to learn quickly and work independently when necessary. 
• Passion for correctness. 
• Enjoys working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced startup environment.
• You are pragmatic and understand the tradeoffs between the perfect solution and the working solution.
• You have excellent speaking and writing skills for communicating with technical and non-technical audiences.